The right way to collaborate, I think, is to divide projects into sharply defined modules, each with a definite owner, - Paul Graham

Let yourself be second-guessed. When you make any tool, people use it in ways you didn’t intend, and this is especially true of a highly articulated tool like a programming language.

If showing movies in theaters wasn't Hollywood's original business model, it would seem a pretty niche idea. Pay to watch a movie at a set time in a big room with a bunch of other people? Someone proposing this would have a hard time getting studios to take the idea seriously.

The more arbitrary the rules imposed by an authority — the more at odds they are with reality — the more opportunities they create for hacking them.